Award-winning photojournalist Zoriah will give a lecture and photo presentation titled "Against the Grain: Images from Conflict Zones" on Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 5:15 p.m. in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building on the U of U campus. He will discuss his documentation of human crises around the world. An exhibit of Zoriah's images will accompany the lecture. Zoriah's photographs have been featured in The New York Times, BBC News, The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. (www.zoriah.com)

Croatian-Swiss poet Dragica Rajčić, who has emerged as an innovative female voice in German transnational literature, will give a public reading in English, German and Croatian on Monday, October 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building on the U of U campus. The poet, a resident of Switzerland since fleeing war in Croatia in 1991, has received numerous awards for her poetry and has been praised for her sharp irony and cutting insight. "Home," she claims, "is in language, not a place defined by geographical boundaries." Her breakthrough style in poetic experimentation is epitomized by its "broken German". (http://www.edition8.ch/autoren/Rajcic.html)

The series concludes Monday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts Marcia and John Price Museum Building Auditorium, with Adelina Anthony's one-woman performance, "La Angry Xicana." It addresses trauma, memory, gender, race/ ethnicity and migration. She believes access to a progressive education and transgressive art empowers individuals and communities. (www.adelinaanthony.com)

The "Border Crossings" series is organized by professors Karin Baumgartner, Angela Espinosa, Gema Guevara, and Eric Laursen of the Department of Languages and Literature and made possible by generous funding from the Dee Council. The Thomas D. Dee II Endowment provides funds for projects that improve teaching in the College of Fine Arts and the College of Humanities at the University of Utah. Other sponsors are the College of Humanities, the Tanner Humanities Center, the Middle East Center, the Office of Diversity, International Studies, Latin American Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Gender Studies.

For more information on the series, visit www.languages.utah.edu.